whose work can be viewed at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, to paint it several times. Today, the cathedral is one of the defining pieces of architecture in this part of Normandy. Aside from ...

Notre-Dame began construction in 1163, but it was almost a century later that the cathedral ... century, Rouen was under the dominion of a voracious, dragon-like creature called la gargouille.